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To sprinkle or moisten with dew; to bedew. [Obs.]

To wrinkle. [Obs.]

palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.

A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A large drinking vessel; also, its contents. [Colloq. Eng.] Forby.

A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs; esp. (Med.),

To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. knits his brow and shows an angry eye. Shak.

Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something. The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Sir K. Digby.

A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [Obs.] In a laund upon an hill of flowers. Chaucer. Through this laund anon the deer will come. Shak.

y attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.

To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened. The objection lessens much, and comes to no more than this: there was one witness of no good reputation. Atterbury.

A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.

A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.

mber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.

affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens.

A margin; border; brink; edge. [Obs.] The beached margent of the sea. Shak.

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

A drinking cup. See 1st Maslin, 2. [Obs.] Chaucer.